We Digitize Your Products So You Can Digitize Your Business.

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1 We Digitize Your Products So You Can Digitize Your Business.

2 The winners in every market will be the businesses that bridge the gap between the real world and the digital world. We re here to digitize every physical product with innovative solutions. We re here to unleash the Internet of your Things.

3 Welcome to SMARTRAC! Digital transformation may be the most obvious, exciting, overhyped and underrated opportunity for any business that deals with physical objects. Yet these objects usually products that companies manufacture or trade remain fundamentally disconnected from the digital systems used to manage them. Building on our heritage as the global RFID* pacesetter, we at SMARTRAC have made it our goal to provide solutions that empower the physical, product-driven world to completely and accurately match the data-driven world. Operating in highly competitive markets and losing billions to product counterfeiters, branded product manufacturers for example require a special approach to digital transformation. * Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the wireless, contactless use of electromagnetic fields to transfer data, for the purposes of automatically identifying and tracking tags attached to physical objects. RFID inlays and tags can carry a unique serial number, digital identity and additional data, allowing a digital representation of the tagged object.

4 How can we make the IoT deliver on its promises for industrial businesses, branded product manufacturers and their customers? How can we streamline manufacturing and logistics processes to make businesses more profitable? Create the Internet of your Things! SMARTRAC offers solutions and services for that transformation, embedding connectivity and digital identity into almost any physical product. In doing so, we enable secure and simplified product authentication, optimized in-store efficiency, full omni-channel readiness and, ultimately, living products that provide dynamic and exclusive consumer experiences at and after the point of sale. In manufacturing industries, digital transformation is often called Industry 4.0 or Industrial Internet. SMARTRAC s solutions bring a unique digital identity and connectivity hence intelligence to physical goods, parts, components, replacement parts, tools and machines to enable smarter processes in factories, supply chains, sales channels, after-sales services and recycling. Many specialized industries from automotive to pharmaceuticals and healthcare benefit greatly from our products and solutions in order to fully drive their digital transformation. Our solutions support a broad range of application areas including automation, animal identification, consumer engagement, electronic devices, toys and games, keyless car access, library and media management, product authentication, retail, smart packaging, wireless sensing, and many more. How can we drive enhanced consumer engagement in the real world at the digital level? How can we bridge the gap between the physical, product-driven world and the digital, data-driven world?

5 Setting the Pace in RFID From its earliest beginnings, SMARTRAC has shaped the world of RFID driving the innovation, quality and production scalability of passive transponders* to new levels. Innovation and Quality are Part of Our DNA As the global RFID and IoT pacesetter, SMARTRAC fosters innovation by continuously improving and enhancing its product and solution portfolio. With our strong R&D and customer-centric solution development team, we constantly evaluate and integrate technology trends and developments worldwide. We apply the highest levels of quality and operational excellence in the manufacture of every single transponder to supply premium-quality products and solutions that perfectly fit our customers needs. * An RFID transponder is a small device that emits an identifying signal in response to a received interrogation signal. A passive (batteryless) RFID transponder is basically a combination of an integrated circuit (IC) that stores the tag s ID and other information, and an antenna that gathers energy and transmits/receives signals. RFID transponders are available in different structural shapes, such as inlays and tags. A Wealth of Know-How and Intellectual Property Backed by an extensive portfolio of patents and patent applications for RFID technology, equipment and production processes, we are continuously setting the highest industry standards. Technologies that Make a Difference One of our main strengths lies in the design and production capability of antenna technologies that are optimized for specific customer application fields. In our broad portfolio, we utilize ICs from all the leading chip manufacturers. Our etching technology offers the advantage of manufacturing several elaborate antenna structures during the same process. Etched antennas are used to produce RFID inlays for applications where a special antenna design is required, such as supply-chain management, inventory or media management. Coil winding is the technology we choose to produce small glass transponders for applications such as animal identification and car immobilizers. Using rugged enclosures, the technology is also suitable for use in harsh environments such as laundry, logistics and factory automation. The printing of conductive ink enables us to deploy and produce new antenna shapes in-house. The key benefits are the fast and economical realization of new designs for HF/UHF frequency ranges. The antennas can be printed on various substrates or materials, enabling novel applications in packaging and beyond.

6 Exceeding Expectations: Our Comprehensive RFID Portfolio Serving as key elements of digital transformation, SMARTRAC RFID products are available in three primary frequency ranges, as tags (either flexible or hard-cased) and inlays, to suit the needs of a wide range of industries and businesses. SMARTRAC is committed to providing production concepts that combine economic manufacturing with minimal ecological impact. Halogen-free, expertly manufactured and thoroughly tested to industry-leading quality, a large number of our products can be customized to individual needs, broadening their fields of application even further. Inlays & Tags Available in HF (NFC) and UHF (RAIN RFID) frequency standards, SMARTRAC s inlays and tags provide a fit-for-function design in the most demanding areas including inventory visibility, product authentication, supply-chain management, media management, healthcare and many more. SMARTRAC s product portfolio also reflects the increasing importance of NFC connectivity to making consumer transactions, exchanging digital content, and connecting electronic devices. Numerous inlays and tags stretch the boundaries of RFID technology with their innovative capabilities and features, for instance providing a digital seal or better environmental resistance to survive multiple domestic washing and drying cycles. Sensing Inlays With a growing number of antenna choices and sensor ICs, SMARTRAC s RAIN RFID (UHF) inlays provide flexible, state-of-the-art solutions to accurately measure leakage, moisture and temperature conditions in applications such as supply-chain and asset management, industry/automotive, pharmaceuticals or healthcare. These passive, single-chip sensor solutions are cost-effective and easy to implement, can be deployed where active or semi-active sensors are impractical, and work on different surface materials ranging from textiles to metal parts to construction materials. We also offer Temperature Logger NFC, a battery-powered label solution to accurately log temperature data in temperaturesensitive supply-chain applications. Logged data can now be read by easy-to-use apps on NFC-enabled smartphones. Hard Tags Frequency Ranges for RFID Systems We offer a broad range of RFID transponders for use in the demanding and harsh environments commonly found in the manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, maritime, oil, gas and chemical industries, as well as logistics and supply-chain applications. Designed to meet specific requirements and compliant to LF, HF and UHF frequency standards, the key features of our hard tags include resistance to dust, chemicals and mechanical stress, protection against temporary immersion in water, and high-temperature resistance. Low frequency (LF, khz) High frequency (HF, MHz) Ultra-high frequency (UHF, 433 and MHz) is better able to penetrate thin, metallic substances. Additionally, LF RFID systems are ideal for reading objects with high water content, but their read range is limited to centimeters. Typical applications include immobilizer systems and animal tagging. works well on objects made of metal, and can work around goods with medium to high water content. HF RFID systems have a read range of about 1 m; applications include brand protection and tracking library books. NFC tags operate in the HF range. passive transponders typically offer a read range of up to 10 meters and fast data transfer. UHF RFID, also known as RAIN RFID, covers many types of retail and industrial applications, like item-level tagging and inventory management. Choose Your RFID Product! Our Product & Solution Finder provides you with an overview of our latest portfolio, and allows you to select the most suitable product for your individual needs. Just tap your NFC-enabled phone on the tag, or visit /products

7 Your Products are Your Platform RFID is the technology of choice for embedding intelligence into simple physical products, turning them into connected, living products. Combining our world-leading, innovative RFID products with our IoT enablement platform Smart Cosmos, we are offering businesses an almost unlimited range of solutions that turn their products into platforms. Smart Cosmos consists of the following key elements required to turn physical products into digital platforms: A product data management platform that manages the digitized product data and makes it available to other digital systems. This provides the springboard for new IoT applications that can transform relationships with customers, suppliers, the supply chain and transform your business. A digital identity solution that enables you to assign a digital identity and additional data to individual products at the point of manufacture, or a subsequent point in the supply chain, in a tightly controlled process step that can be applied in non-secure environments. End-to-end solutions to utilize product data for consumer experience innovation, inventory and supply chain management, and many more applications. What If Your Business Is Digitized? Once your products are digitized, you get a new data source that reveals where those products really are, what they re going through and how customers use them. That means you get a new channel for digital services, dynamic customer experiences and digital sales. Armed with this wealth of information provided by your digitized products, the opportunities are virtually limitless. This is the Internet of your Things. Business Value for Any Industry Living product data connects the real world to the digital world and enables the transformation of every business that develops, manufactures, sells, moves and tracks physical products. SMARTRAC s products and solutions should be very high on the list of anyone eager to create more digital value for physical products. Get more insights and ideas about our IoT solutions at

8 At a Glance Founded: 2000 Workforce: 1,200 Regional presence in the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific Global customer service network Smart Cosmos IoT solutions for product digitization and business transformation Industry-leading RFID product portfolio backed by strong patents Flexible, high-capacity manufacturing facilities ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications ISO 1579 for laundry tags IEC Halogen-free standards Endorser of the UN Global Compact, committed to the 10 principles on human rights, labor standards, environment and anti-corruption What Could Your RFID-driven Future Hold? Contact us to find out! /contact twitter.com/smartrac_nv linkedin.com/company/smartrac-technology facebook.com/smartractechnology

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